{"86421":{"#nid":"86421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumnus Profile: Victor De Jesus of CDC","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA PhD Chemistry graduate of Georgia Tech and the recipient of a post-doctoral appointment with EPA, Victor De Jes\u00c3\u00bas, PhD, was recently presented with the Jean Dussault Medal for Young Investigators, an award that honors a member of the International Society for Neonatal Screening who has made a significant contribution to neonatal or other population-based screening.  In addition, he received the 2009 NCEH\/ATSDR Honor Award for Excellence in Public Health Practice-Service.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is no suprise that De Jes\u00c3\u00bas received theses awards. For over 3 years that he has been with DLS, De Jes\u00c3\u00bas has run the mass spectrometry program at the CDC\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program (NSQAP), the sole provider of comprehensive performance evaluation tools and services to newborn screening laboratories worldwide. Thousands of children are living healthy and productive lives as a result of newborn screening and the NSQAP. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDe Jes\u00c3\u00bas has led the programmatic undertaking to achieve full program coverage for all of the disorders identified by the American College of Medical Genetics\u00e2\u0080\u0099 2006 newborn screening Uniform Panel. As a result of his work, NSQAP will provide high-quality DBS QA materials to participants that contain all primary biomarkers of the ACMG\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Uniform Panel\u00e2\u0080\u0099s MS\/MS-detectable conditions in early 2011.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDe Jes\u00c3\u00bas has also established a highly-recognized QA program for lysosomal storage disorders (LSD) in collaboration with the New York Department of Public Health, the University Children\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Hospital in Vienna, Austria, and Genzyme Corporation. He authored a seminal paper defining preparation and certification of the DBS reference materials for the LSD assays. De Jes\u00c3\u00bas initiated this program and has grown it to serve more than 61 laboratories in 24 countries.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDe Jes\u00c3\u00bas has served on 4 committees of professional organizations, published 25 peer-reviewed papers, and given over 20 formal presentations at domestic and international professional meetings, with several by special invitation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENews-story provided by:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCraig Studer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDeputy Director, Division of Oral Health\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCenters for Disease Control and Prevention\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A graduate of Georgia Tech and the recipient of a post-doctoral appointment with EPA, Victor De Jes\u00c3\u00bas, PhD, was recently presented with the Jean Dussault Medal for Young Investigators, an award that honors a member of the International Society for Neonatal Screening who has made a significant contribution to neonatal or other population-based screening.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Recipient of Jean Dussault Medal for Young Investigators"}],"uid":"27275","created_gmt":"2010-11-18 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:22","author":"Shirley Tomes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"86431":{"id":"86431","type":"image","title":"media:image:1b5586a8-6c59-48c4-9710-d541d083ffe3","body":null,"created":"1449178119","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:39","changed":"1475894621","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:41"}},"media_ids":["86431"],"groups":[{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ECameron Tyson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=ct30\u0022\u003EContact Cameron Tyson\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["cam.tyson@chemistry.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}